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Posted on: April 20th, 2008 Is the new Asus Eee PC 900 overpriced?

I found out from Yuga’s blog that the new Asus Eee PC 900 is priced at P33,900 at PC Corner.   Overpriced?  Maybe, especially since one can reportedly get a Compaq laptop at less than P30,000.  Methinks that the big price difference is due to the Eee PC 900’s solid-state drive.

But even so, Asus’ original Eee PC was priced abroad at $399 and priced locally at P19,800, so if we take the same calculation, it should make the new Eee PC 900, at $549, at something like P27,250.  And with the dollar hovering around the P41-42 level, it should even be much lower.